Pandemic 2024 Start Button. Nations set themselves the deadline of may 2024 by which they should reach agreement on what would be the world’s first ever pandemic accord. In this q&a, amesh adalja, md, a senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security, breaks down the specifics of disease x, when and where the.

Here’s what we know about disease x, and what “pandemic preparedness” means. That’s a remarkable success for policy.